NSLF 2015 Programme Details (Updated 030815)

NSLF 2015 Programme Details (Updated 030815)
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Programme
Date/Venue: 22 August at National Institute of Education (1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616)
8.00-9.00AM:
Registration opens
(Registration is outside LT1)
9.00-11.30AM:
Events: Unseen Debate, Set Text Debate, Lit Trailer, Book Parade
(Please refer to the map in Appendix C, pg 18 for room locations)
11.30AM-12.10PM:
Break (Refreshments for participants and teachers will be served at Basement 1 of
NIE canteen)
12.10-12.50PM:
Dialogue with Singapore writers – Students can choose any one of the following
panel sessions:
Panel 1: Connecting film, photography and literature with Dennis Yeo & Marc
Nair (Venue: LT 1) – Synposis: What are the connections between literary and
visual texts? How can we create poetry in moving and static images? How can
film and photography help us appreciate literature and vice versa?
Panel 2: Understanding the art of poetry with Joshua Ip & Loh Chin Ee (Venue:
LT 2) – Synposis: What is poetry? How can we better appreciate the art of
poetry? What are key ideas in Singapore poetry? What strategies can be applied
to writing captivating poems?
Panel 3: Key ideas in Singapore literature with Angelia Poon, Theophilus Kwek,
& Ann Ang (Venue: LT 12) – Synposis: Teachers are increasingly introducing
Singapore literature in the classroom. It is also one of the texts assessed in the
Unseen section of the O level paper. What is Singapore literature? What are
some key themes and ideas in Singapore literature? What are some strategies
that help us better appreciate Singapore literature?
Panel 4: Techniques in playwriting with Jean Tay & Ken Mizusawa (Venue: LT 7)
– Synposis: What are key ingredients for a successful play? What are core themes
in Singapore plays? What techniques should we take note of when studying plays
in order to better appreciate their art?
Panel 5: Creative writing 101 with Faith Ng & Verena Tay (Venue: LT 8) –
Synopsis: Have you dreamt about writing or even publishing your own stories or
plays? Get tips and strategies from established writers. Find out strategies that
can be employed to engage readers/audiences and tips to overcome writer’s
block. Get inspired to start writing!
(Please refer to Appendix B pg 15 for the bios of the panelists).
1.00-1.30PM:
Prize giving for Lit Trailer, Flash Fiction and Book Parade:
LT1: Lit trailer (Rooms: TR707, 712, 714, 715)
LT 2: Lit trailer (Rooms: TR716, 717, 718)
LT12: Flash fiction and Book Parade
(Note that prizes for unseen and set text debates will be given right after the
debates in the respective tutorial rooms. (Please refer to the map in Appendix C,
pg 18 for room locations).
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Important Rules
1. Holding rooms for all events are at the first level of the canteen (please refer to the map in Appendix
C pg 18).
2. All participants must arrive at the designated event venue at least 15 mins before the start of the
event. If participants are late by more than 5 minutes, they will be disqualified.
3. Eating and drinking (except for water) are NOT allowed in any of the tutorial rooms or lecture
theatres. Please eat in the canteen area only. Please keep the area clean and throw all litter in the
designated bins.
4. Refreshments are provided for event participants and teachers. This is at the basement level of the
canteen area.
5. Please do not touch any of the equipment and do not wander beyond the following areas: Blocks 5,
7, canteen area and LT 7 & 8. There are security cameras throughout NIE.
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Event 1: Unseen Debate
Note: A = Team A and B = Team B
Time/Venue
Teacher I/C
Chairperson
(CGS)
Timekeeper
(CGS)
Usher (NIE)
Judges
TR503
Hui Ran
Yu Han
TR504
Sylvia
Laranya
Ellyzsha
Chloe
Heather Lee (TG1)
*Sukhjeet Kaur (CHIJK)
John Praveen (ACS B)
Mousumi Saha
(Westwood Sec)
Judith Lam (TG1)
*Ong Kheng May
(Hillgrove Sec)
Jansen Yuen (QTS)
Emily Low (NHHS)
9.00-9.30AM
A: Regent Secondary
School vs B: Hillgrove
Secondary School (Sec 3)
A: Fuchun Secondary
School vs B: St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary
School (Sec 4)
A: Bukit Batok Secondary
School vs B: Clementi
Town Secondary School
(Sec 3)
A: CHIJ St Nicholas’ Girls
School vs B: Raffles Girls’
School (Secondary) (Sec
3)
Text: Poem 1
9.40-10.10AM
Text: Poem 2
10.20-10.50AM
Text: Poem 3
A: Macpherson
Secondary School vs B:
St Anthony’s Canossian
Secondary School (Sec 3)
A: Evergreen Secondary
School vs B: St
Margaret’s Secondary
School (Sec 3)
TR505
Yuen De Wei (NIE TG1)
Kathleen
TR506
Denise
Vasunthara
TR507
Faith
Shrinidhi/Tyler
Sangari
Rifah
Kasturi (TG1)
*Ghazali Hussain (TK)
Clare Low (Bedok View
Sec)
Renuka Devi (Admiralty
Sec)
Grace Wang (TG1)
*Cao Yu (AES)
Wendy Chen (Admiralty
Sec)
Nur Rakeezah
(Westwood Sec)
Christopher (TG1)
*Fu Kaidi (NCHS)
Amelia Gan (NHHS)
Jean Ong (Punggol Sec)
A: Greenridge Secondary
School vs B: Pasir Ris
Crest Secondary School
(Sec 3)
A: Punggol Secondary
School vs B: Westwood
Secondary School (Sec 3)
A: Edgefield Secondary
School vs B: Hua Yi
Secondary School (Sec 3)
A: Admiralty Secondary
School vs B: Serangoon
Garden Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Bowen Secondary
School vs B: Presbyterian
High School (Sec 3)
Anisha
A: Crescent Girls’ School
vs B: Raffles Institution
(Secondary) (Sec 3)
11.00-11.30
A: Clementi Town
A: Dunman High School
A: Sembawang
Secondary School vs B:
vs B: Raffles Institution
Secondary School vs B:
Text: Poem 4
Presbyterian High School (Secondary) (Sec 4)
Tanglin Secondary
(Sec 4)
School (Sec 4)
* Please refer to Appendix A on page 11-14 for the Poems for the debate.
Event 1 (Unseen Debate) - Reserve facilitators or judges from NIE:
1. Nur Afiqah (TG1)
2. Amanda Loh (TG1)
3. Victoria Joan Ong (TG1)
A: Commonwealth
Secondary School vs B:
Nan Chiau High School
(Sec 3)
A: Nan Hua High School
vs B: CHIJ Katong
Convent (Sec 3)
A: Greenridge Secondary
School vs B: Fuchun
Secondary School (Sec 4)
TR508
Darlene (NIE TG1)
Divyatharani
/Jacqueline
Madhu/Tammie
Grace Heng (TG1)
*Nick Chui (Westwood
Sec)
Nor Lizawati (Woodlands
Ring Sec)
Alfieana Alphonso
(Edgefield Sec)
A: Siglap Secondary
School vs B: Assumption
English School (Sec 3)
S: Anglo-Chinese School
(Barker Road)
Vs B: Ngee Ann
Secondary School (Sec 3)
A: St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary
School vs B: Paya Lebar
Methodist Girls’ School
(Sec 3)
A: Hougang Secondary
School vs B: Jun Yuan
Secondary School (Sec 4)
A: Nan Chiau High School
vs B: St Anthony’s
Canossian Secondary
School (Sec 4)
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Event 2: Set Text Debate Note: P = Proposition and O = Opposition
Set Text
School
Stream
Time
Venue
Motions
Teacher I/C, judges, facilitators
Joy Luck Club
THBT daughters can never escape
the expectations of their mothers.
THBT The Joy Luck Club stereotypes
Chinese American women.
THBT A just society requires strict
enforcement of rules.
Teacher IC: Ying Fen
Chairperson (DHS): Tan Xian Tong
Time keeper (DHS): Isabella Yuki Ho
Usher (NIE): Yuen Wai (TG1)
Judges: *Chen Shu Hui (FSS)
Rachel Kwan (TKGS)
Tan Jie Ying (NCHS)
LOTF: *Norani Hassan (PRCS)
Rachel Mo (PHSS)
Teacher IC: Shaline
Chairperson (DHS): Seraphina Wee
Ying Wei
Timekeeper (DHS): Corliss Lim Zi Hwee
Usher (NIE): Isabelle (TG1)
Judges: *June Lee (Siglap Sec)
Colin Koh (NTSS)
Chermaine Goh (TSS)
Teacher IC: Michelle
Chairperson (DHS): Lee Yi Shan
Time keeper (DHS): Chen Yi Han
Amanda
Usher (NIE): Jasmyn (TG1)
Judges: *Amutha R. (FSS)
Kuek Shao Zhen (HYSS)
Sharmila Thiruhelvam (BSS)
Teacher IC (NIE): Darryl (TG1)
Chairperson (DHS): Soh Si Jie
Time keeper (DHS): Goh Pei Xuan
Gracia
Usher (NIE): Amalina (TG1)
Judges: *Huang Yu Long (Serangoon
Sec)
Sum Kar Mun ( TSS)
Joy Luck Club
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
LOTF
P: Admiralty Secondary School
O: Bowen Secondary School
P: Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School
O: St. Anthony’s Canossian Sec Sch
P: Presbyterian High School
O: St. Patrick’s School
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
9-9.45
TR701
9.50-10.35
TR701
10.45-11.30
TR701
P: Evergreen Secondary School
O: Fuchun Secondary School
P: Anglican High School
O: St. Gabriel’s Secondary School
P: Evergreen Secondary School
O: Sembawang Secondary School
4NA
4NA
3E
4E
4E
4E
9-9.45
TR702
9.50-10.35
TR702
10.45-1130
TR702
P: Presbyterian High School
O: Serangoon Garden Secondary School
P: Evergreen Secondary School
O: Hillgrove Secondary School
P: St. Margaret’s Secondary School
O: Crescent Girls’ School
4E
4E
3NA
3E
3E
3E
9-9.45
TR703
9.50-10.35
TR703
10.45-11.30
TR703
P: ACS Barker
O: CHIJ Katong Convent
P: Clementi Woods Secondary School
O: Siglap Secondary School
P: Holy Innocents’ High School
O: Kuo Chuan Presbyterian School
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
9-9.45
TR704
9.50-10.35
TR704
10.45-11.30
TR704
THBT Piggy represents the voice of
reason on the island.
THBT The Beast in 'The Lord of the
Flies' is just an illusion.
THBT A just society requires strict
enforcement of rules.
THBT Piggy represents the voice of
reason on the island.
THBT The Beast in 'The Lord of the
Flies' is just an illusion.
THBT A just society requires strict
enforcement of rules
THBT Piggy represents the voice of
reason on the island.
THBT The Beast in 'The Lord of the
Flies' is just an illusion.
THBT A just society requires strict
enforcement of rules.
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Set Text
LOTF
5
School
P: Pasir Ris Crest Secondary School
O: Pei Hwa Secondary School
P: Evergreen Secondary School
O: Westwood Secondary School
P: Fuchun Secondary School
O: Tanglin Secondary School
Stream
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
Time
9-9.45
Venue
TR705
9.50-10.35
TR705
10.45-11.30
TR705
P: Evergreen Secondary School
5NA
9- 9.45
TR706
THBT The female characters in the
novel lead meaningless lives.
Here and
Beyond
O: Fuchun Secondary School
P: Greenridge Secondary School team 1
O: Assumption English School
4E
3E
3E
9.50-10.35
TR706
Here and
Beyond
P: Junyuan Secondary School
O: Greenridge Secondary School team 2
3E
3E
10.45-11.30
TR706
THBT Gloria (in Suchen Christine
Lim’s story) is fully responsible for
her arrest at the end of the story.
THBT that Tim (in Simon Tay’s story)
is a character to be admired rather
than sympathized.
Julius Caesar
P: CHIJ Katong Convent
O: Edgefield Secondary School
P: Clementi Town Secondary School
O: Commonwealth Secondary School
P: Chung Cheng High School
O: Nan Chiau High School Team 1
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
3E
9-9.45
TR708
9.50-10.35
TR708
10.45-11.30
TR708
LOTF
LOTF
Fasting,
Feasting
Julius Caesar
The Road to
Memphis
Motions
THBT Piggy represents the voice of
reason on the island.
THBT The Beast in 'The Lord of the
Flies' is just an illusion.
THBT A just society requires strict
enforcement of rules.
THBT Brutus is a better leader than
Julius Caesar
THBT Cassius is the most powerful
character in the play
THBT close friendships between
Blacks and Whites are a cause for
trouble in the novel
Teacher I/C, judges, facilitators
Teacher IC (NIE): Miao Hanqing (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS): Kathleen Yip Si Hui
Time keeper (DHS): Chen Jing
Usher (NIE): Frida Ho (TG2)
Judges: *Josephine Shen (Nan Chiau
Sec)
Nellie Tan (Holy Innocents High)
Dawn Tan (St Pat’s Sec)
Teacher IC (NIE): Liang Wanyu Lavinia
(TG2)
Chairperson (DHS):Teo Tian Ci
Timekeeper (DHS): Tan Yuan En
Usher (NIE): Andrea Yeo (TG2)
Judges:
Fasting Feasting - *Royce Teo
(Compassvale Sec)
Anju Babu (Punggol Sec)
Here & Beyond - *Angeline Sim
(Changkat Changi Sec)
Lau Quan Han (Clementi Woods)
Teacher I/C (NIE): Khorunnisaa (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS): Sarah Lim Si Ting
Timekeeper (DHS): Tan Jia Wei
Usher (NIE): Cheryl Chia (TG2)
Judges:
Julius Caesar - *Priyanka Chakraborty
(Westwood Sec)
Megalai Rajandran (Pei Hwa Sec)
Nicole Kang (RI)
Road to M - *Wang Xiang Jun (Orchid
Park sec)
Madeline Wee (KRSS)
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Set Text
The Road to
Memphis
6
School
P: Nan Chiau High School Team 2
Stream
3E
Time
9-9.45
Venue
TR709
Motions
THBT Jeremy is the real hero of the
story.
Romeo and
Juliet
O: Kent Ridge Secondary School
P: Clementi Town Secondary School
O: Dunman High School
3E
4E
4E
9.50-10.35
TR709
Romeo and
Juliet
P: Edgefield Secondary School
O: St. Anthony’s Canossian Sec Sch
4E
4E
10.45-11.30
TR709
THBT The death of Mercutio and
Tybalt is unnecessary in 'Romeo and
Juliet'.
THBT that there is poetic justice at
the end of the play.
Telltale
P: Greenridge Secondary School
O: Junyuan Secondary School
4E
4E
9-9.45
TR710
THBT "Understudies" reveals
how people's lives are never meant
to belong to themselves, but to the
state.
Telltale
4E
4E
4E
3E
4E
3E
9.50-10.35
TR710
Everything
but the Brain
Death of a
Salesman
P: Dunearn Secondary School
O: St. Patrick’s School
P: North View Secondary School
O: Queenstown Secondary School
P: Hougang Secondary School
O: Ngee Ann Secondary School
10.45-11.30
TR710
10.45-11.30
TR711
THBT "Kenny's Big Break" explicitly
criticises the idea of conformity.
THBT intellectual legacies determine
our life's worth.
THBT Willy Loman's self-absorption
results in his death at the end of the
play.
Death of a
Salesman
Death of a
Salesman
Death of a
Salesman
P: St. Gabriel’s Secondary School
O: Nan Chiau High School
P: Dunman High School
O: Tanjong Katong Girls’ School
P: Bedok View Secondary School
O: Punggol Secondary School
4E
4E
3E
3E
3E
3E
9-9.45
TR713
9.50-10.35
TR713
10.45-11.30
TR713
THBT Biff is responsible for the
Loman family falling apart.
THBT Linda failed in her
responsibilities towards her family.
THBT Willy Loman's self-absorption
results in his death at the end of the
play.
Teacher I/C, judges, facilitators
Teacher I/C (NIE): Daryl Leong (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS): Amanda Lye Jue
yin
Timekeeper (NIE): Chen Shu’En (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Cherie Chong (TG2)
Judges: RtM - *Wang Xiang Jun (Orchid
Park sec)
Madeline Wee (KRSS)
R & J - *Meenakshi Palaniappan
(CPDD)
Johann Yeo (CPDD)
Teacher I/C (NIE): Sheena Kang (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS): Carine Loh Rui
Xuan
Timekeeper (NIE): Serene Ng (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Evon Lim (TG2)
Judges: *Cindy Yeo (Hougang Sec)
Beverly Ang (Hua Yi Sec)
EAB - *Izzan Yusoff (Junyuan Sec)
Nerine Tan (Queensway sec)
Teacher I/C: Sangeetha
Chairperson (DHS): Seetoh Keng Wan
Stacia
Timekeeper (NIE): Quek Shi Yun (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Nazri Eddy (TG2)
Judges: *Joel Tan (Dunman High)
Dawn Quek (TKGS)
Teacher I/C (NIE): Elvis Wang (TG2)
Chairperson (DHS): Yeo Xuan
Timekeeper (NIE): Samuel Chan (TG2)
Usher (NIE): Zachary Low (TG2)
Judges: *Lau Bee Juan (Queensway
Sec)
Evelyn Sim (Tanglin Sec)
Ow Yeong Wai Kit (Bt Batok Sec)
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Event 2 (Set Text Debate) - Reserve facilitators and judges from NIE:
1. Chew Jia Lin Lynn (TG2)
2. Izza Binte Ismail (TG2)
3. Yeo Tze Qing (TG2)
Event 4: Lower Sec Lit Trailer
Time/Venue
TR707
Teacher I/C
Radha
TR712
Junaida
TR714
Raffiqah
TR715
Charissa
TR716
Usha
TR717
Sook Lian
Darius Sim (TG3)
Joanne Loo (TG3)
Lyana (TG3)
Jenny T (TG3)
Kezia Soh (TG3)
Elfarina (TG3)
*Marianne Li
(Anglican High)
V. Vanishree
(Junyuan Sec)
Serina Wai
(Greenridge Sec)
Masrurah (TG3)
*Grace Yeo (GSS)
Stella Tan
(Sembawang Sec)
Chia Yen Har (CHIJ St
Nicholas Girls)
Sharilyn (TG3)
*Debbie Wong
(CPDD)
Siti Nur’aini
(Hillgrove Sec)
Jocelyn Chua (Hua Yi
Sec)
Teo Sze Ying (TG3)
*Nurhayati Rahman
(Chung Cheng High)
Filzah Yahya
(Changkat Changi
Sec)
Susheela V. (Fuchun
Sec)
Klara (TG3)
* Samuel Zou En (St
Theresa’s Convent)
Isaac Tan (AES)
Brannan Kwa
(Edgefield Sec)
TR718
Perdana/Siti Adibah
Binte Mustafa (TG3)
Nicholas Huang
(TG3)
Aaron Chen (TG3)
*Harvinder Singh (St
Anthony’s)
Lau Quan Han
(Clementi Woods)
Florence Lee (ACS B)
Holy Innocents' High
School
Sec 2 Exp Team Stepping Up - Four
Short Plays
Hong Kah Secondary
Sec 2 Exp team- The
boy in the striped
pyjamas
Serangoon Garden
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team - To
Kill a Mockingbird
CHIJ St. Theresa's
Convent
Sec 2 Exp team - The
Pearl
Zhenghua
Secondary
Sec 2 Team - An
Inspector Calls
Tanglin Sec
Sec 1 Exp team –
Roald Dahl's Ten
Short Stories
Si Ling Secondary
Sec 2 NA teamMatilda
St Anthony's
Canossian
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team Romeo and Juliet
Pasir Ris Crest
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team - The
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Chestnut Drive
Secondary
Sec 1 Exp team - Sing
to the Dawn
Fuchun Sec
Sec 2 team –
Desmond Sim
Student Plays
Hougang Secondary
School
Sec 2 Exp team - The
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Clementi Town
Secondary School
Sec 2 Express Team
(A Midsummer
Night's Dream)
Greenridge
Secondary School
Sec2NA team –
Coraline
Emcee
/Time (NIE)
Usher (NIE)
Judges
Amal Luqman
(TG3)
Syafiq (TG3)
*Vani Dorairaj
(CPDD)
Lily Koh (Anglican
High)
Priscilla Tan (Nan
Chiau)
9.00-9.35
(15 mins each
team)
Admiralty
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team
Clementi Woods
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team - Sing
to the Dawn
Commonwealth
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Anglo-Chinese
School (Barker
Road)
Sec 1 Exp team The Christmas
Carol
Admiralty
Secondary School
Sec 1 NA team
9.40-10.35
(15 mins each
team)
Compassvale
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp Team -The Jade Pendant by
Catherine Lim
Hong Kah Sec
Sec 1 Exp team –
The Umbrella Man
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(15 mins
each team)
11.2011.35
8
Crescent Girls'
School
Sec 2 Exp team Animal Farm
Anglo-Chinese
School (Barker
Road)
Sec 2 Exp team Lord of the Flies
Hua Yi Secondary
School
Sec 2 EXP - Boy in
the Striped Pyjamas
Tanglin Secondary
School
Sec 2 Exp team Stella Kon's 9
Classroom Plays
Hillgrove Secondary
School
Sec 1 Exp team - Sing
to the Dawn
Evergreen
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team - An
Inspector Calls
Yuying Sec team 2
Sec 1 & 2 Exp team –
Matilda
Assumption English
School
Sec 2 Exp team Animal Farm
Crest Secondary
School
Sec 1 NT teamRomeo and Juliet
Tanjong Katong
Girls' School
Sec 2 Exp Team - The
Merchant of Venice
Assumption English
School
Sec 1 Exp team –
Oliver Twist
Paya Lebar
Methodist Girls'
School (Sec)
Sec 1 Exp team - Red
Sky in the Morning
Chestnut Drive
Secondary
1 Sec 2 Exp team –
The Merchant of
Venice
Punggol Secondary
School
Sec 2 Exp team - The
Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Fairfield Methodist
School (Secondary)
Sec 2 EXP Team
Fairfield Methodist
School (Sec)
Sec 1 Exp Team –
Wonder
Crest Secondary
School
1 Sec 2 NT teamMacbeth
Bukit Batok
Secondary
Sec 1 Exp - Bridge to
Terabithia
Dunearn Secondary
School
Sec 2 Exp Team –
The Merchant of
Venice
Kent Ridge
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp Team - To
Kill A Mockingbird
(The Play)
Kuo Chuan
Presbyterian
Secondary
Sec 1 Exp team – The
Boy In The Striped
Pyjamas
Nan Chiau High
School
Sec 2 Exp team –
Macbeth
Woodlands Ring
Secondary School
Sec 2 Team - The
Boy In the Striped
Pyjamas
Nan Hua High
School
Sec 1 Exp team – A
Meteor of Words
Outram Secondary
School team 2
Sec 2 Express team –
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Nan Hua High
School
Sec 2 Exp team – The
Merchant of Venice
Changkat Changi
Secondary School
Sec 2 team – To Kill
A Mockingbird
Dunman High School
Sec 2 Express Roll of
Thunder, Hear My
Cry
Outram Secondary
School
Sec 2 Express team –
The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas
Edgefield Sec
Sec 2 Express – An
inspector calls
Yuying Secondary
School
Sec 1 Exp teamMatilda
Event 4 (Lit Trailer) - Reserve facilitators/judges from NIE (TG3):
1. Tan Poh Hoon
Westwood
Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team –
Skellig
Orchid Park Sec
Sec 2 Exp Team –
Merchant of Venice
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Event 5: Book Parade (9-11.30 am)
Venue: TR501
Teacher I/C: Kathryn
Set-up/Usher (NIE): Alyssa Lim and Ho Shu Ying (TG3)
Judges:
*Rani Palaraju (CPDD)
Yang Wei (NHHS)
Kamisah Yusoff (Pasir Ris Crest)
No
Name of School
Title of Book
1
Admiralty Secondary School
Sec 2 NA team - Romeo & Juliet (abridged)
2
School
Sec 1 Exp Team- Red Sky in the Morning
3
Anglo-Chinese School (Barker
Sec 1 Exp team - The Christmas Carol
Road)
4
Assumption English School
Sec 2 NA team - Animal Farm
5
Bedok View Secondary School
6
9
Changkat Changi Secondary
School
CHIJ St. Theresa's Convent
Commonwealth Secondary
School
Edgefield Secondary School
10
Evergreen Secondary School
11
Greenridge Secondary School
12
13
Holy Innocents' High School
Hillgrove Secondary
7
8
Sec 2 Exp team - Merchant of Venice
(unabridged)
Sec 2 team - To Kill A Mockingbird
Sec 1 Exp team - Emily of Emerald Hill
Sec 1 Exp team - Bridge to Terabithia
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Venue: Seminar Room (5-01-04)
Teacher I/C: Kathryn
Set-up/Usher (NIE): Daniel Pflug and Clara Ang Cong Ping (TG3)
Judges:
*Madeline Wee (Kent Ridge Sec)
Nuurassyikin Yusnan (Dunman High)
Elson Quek (Sembawang Sec)
No
Name of School
Event 5: Lower Sec Book Parade
14
Hougang Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp team - The Outsiders
15
Hua Yi Secondary School
Sec 1 EXP - The Giver
16
MacPherson Secondary School
Sec 1 EXP/NA team - Percy Jackson & the
Lightning Thief
17
North View Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp Team - Little Ironies by Catherine
Lim
18
Outram Secondary School
Sec 2 Express team - The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
19
Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School
Sec Exp team - Merchant of Venice
(Sec)
20
Peicai Secondary school
Sec 1 Express - Boy in the striped pyjamas
21
Pei Hwa Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp team - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Sec 1 Exp Team - The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
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Punggol Secondary School
Sec 2 Exp team - The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
Sec 1 Exp team - Percy Jackson and the
Lightning Thief
Sec 2Exp team - The Boy in The Striped
Pyjamas
Sec 1 Exp – Or Else THe Lightning God
Sec 2 Exp team – An Inspector Calls
23
Sec 2 Exp team - To Kill a Mockingbird
24
Serangoon Garden Secondary
School
Si Ling Secondary
25
26
St. Margaret's Secondary School
St. Patrick's School
27
Tanjong Katong Girls' School
28
29
Westwood Secondary School
Woodlands Ring Secondary School
Sec 1 Exp team- Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Sec 1 Express - Bridge to Terabithia
Sec 2 Exp team - The Boy in the Striped
Pyjamas
Sec 1 Exp Team - Red Sky in the Morning/
Poetry Scrapbook
Sec 2 Exp team - Skellig
Sec 2 Mixed team (Exp + NA) - The Boy In
The Striped Pyjamas
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Yuying Secondary School
Zhenghua Secondary
Sec 1NA- James and the Giant Peach
Sec 1 Express Team - The Giver
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Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
9.00-9.30AM
Text: Poem 1
A: Regent
Secondary
School vs B:
Hillgrove
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Fuchun
Secondary
School vs B: St
Anthony’s
Canossian
Secondary
School (Sec 4)
A: Greenridge
Secondary
School vs B:
Pasir Ris Crest
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
POEM 1:
Autobiography
by Alfian Sa’at
Like most of us, I can't remember how
I was separated from my first love.
(Did it die, did I break it, was it stolen
Or did it fly out through the open window?)
I didn't have radio-tuning parents
Who filled the house with music
Or instilled in me "a love of the cinema".
I never recalled my mother coming home
From the hairdressers' with a new hairdo
Or father teaching me fishing, or
Staying up to watch football on TV.
He did once bring a kite home but hung it
On my bedroom wall (he turned it into
A portrait, it wasn't his fault the wall
Never became more of a sky). Meanwhile
Cousins came for visits wearing braces
And chattering about comics, bicycle scars,
And camping out, ghost stories (don't tell
That one, tell the one where Daddy used
The torchlight and Mummy screamed and dropped
Her things and laughed like a hyena). We drank
Boiled water in the house, and sometimes
Waking from a nap I would wander the rooms
To find mother copying cross-stitch designs
From a book or father watching a subtitled
Chinese re-run. So I slept again, dreaming
Of playing toys away from the sunlight
That leaked in between hawk-eyed curtains
Gold-plating afternoon dust to shining pollen.
When I awoke I was twenty, being asked
If I had a happy childhood. Yes, the one
We all have: filled to the brim
With the love of absent things.
A: Edgefield
Secondary
School vs B:
Hua Yi
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Admiralty
Secondary
School vsB:
Serangoon
Garden
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Siglap
Secondary
School vs B:
Assumption
English School
(Sec 3)
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Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
9.40-10.10AM
Text: Poem 2
A:
Macpherson
Secondary
School vs B: St
Anthony’s
Canossian
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Bukit Batok
Secondary
School vs B:
Clementi
Town
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: Punggol
Secondary
School vs B:
Westwood
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
POEM 2:
Postcards from Chinatown
by Terence Heng
Racks of clothes along racks of clocks, as
if ticking away the fashion of the eras.
Fortune telling weight machine, I never
stepped on one before. Durian sign sale,
bicycle underneath no-bicycle sign.
Rusty trishaw parked outside renovated
lifts. And an old dental surgery somewhere
next to an older barber in the HDB.
Urn, three joss sticks burnt out sometime ago.
That was in the background where I walked,
background of the closed down emporium,
background of the foreign worker outside
an unopened shophouse. Background wet market,
background unanswered responses to the cajoling
from the hawkers in the background hawker centre.
Background, backstage.
Our performance dictates a different set of scripts.
Souvenir shops selling Chinese hats and fake
pigtails stapled to the end.
Umbrellas for holding water.
Postcards of nothing that we really do.
A:
Commonwealt
h Secondary
School vs B:
Nan Chiau
High School
(Sec 3)
A: Bowen
Secondary
School vs B:
Presbyterian
High School
(Sec 3)
S: AngloChinese
School (Barker
Road)
Vs B: Ngee
Ann
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
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Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
10.20-10.50AM
Text: Poem 3
A: Evergreen
Secondary
School vs B: St
Margaret’s
Secondary
School (Sec 3)
A: CHIJ St
Nicholas’ Girls
School vs B:
Raffles Girls’
School
(Secondary)
(Sec 3)
A: Crescent
Girls’ School
vs B: Raffles
Institution
(Secondary)
(Sec 3)
POEM 3:
My City, My Canvas
by Heng Siok Tian
How do I colour my city
with creatures busy in living?
do I walk along as it on an errand
seeking a lotus pond afloat with enlightenment?
Do I go in search of orchid petals
to unfurl whorls for hybrid pollens?
Do I hurry along street plans and measure landuse
to draw lines and shapes for my canvas?
My city has no mountain ranges
to be unscrolled broadened brownness,
neither has she bushfires nor epic tragedies
but her sky can be
as dry and distant as a desert’s.
My city has campaigns, policies and long-term planning,
has a reputation for drivenness
of a small country,
has shopping malls and more …
Is my canvas
a surrealscape of
a slim city slowly coated with melting cheese
where there are clowns with broken legs,
jugglers balancing on shaky stakes,
children spinning on top of whales
growing up to be adults with briefcases
on top of flying clocks?
A: Nan Hua
High School vs
B: CHIJ Katong
Convent (Sec
3)
A: St
Anthony’s
Canossian
Secondary
School vs B:
Paya Lebar
Methodist
Girls’ School
(Sec 3)
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Appendix A: Event 1 – Unseen Debate Texts
11.00-11.30
Text: Poem 4
A: Clementi
Town
Secondary
School vs B:
Presbyterian
High School
(Sec 4)
A: Dunman
High School vs
B: Raffles
Institution
(Secondary)
(Sec 4)
POEM 4:
TEMASEK
by Edwin Thumboo
Deprived of you, history and sense
Turn quicksilver. In my grieving side
Grammars of living break their tense,
Diminish tact, impatience, pride,
Other contraries of soft power
That override or humble fact, debate,
The sea's recession or the faded flower.
I wonder if, again, old fashioned Fate,
Jealously ruminates in secret, rides
Us creatures who celebrate or rue.
I am bare. Unknowing, the world derides
My acts, my silences...deprived of you.
A:
Sembawang
Secondary
School vs B:
Tanglin
Secondary
School (Sec 4)
A: Greenridge
Secondary
School vs B:
Fuchun
Secondary
School (Sec 4)
A: Hougang
Secondary
School vs B:
Jun Yuan
Secondary
School (Sec 4)
A: Nan Chiau
High School vs
B: St
Anthony’s
Canossian
Secondary
School (Sec 4)
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Appendix B: Bio of panelists
Dr Loh Chin Ee
Formerly a secondary school teacher, Loh Chin Ee is an Assistant Professor in
the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute
of Education, Nanyang Technological University. She is the co-editor
of Teaching Literature in Singapore Secondary Schools (Pearson, 2013), Little
Things: an Anthology of Poetry (Ethos, 2013) and Teaching Poetry to
Adolescents: a Teachers’ Guide to Little Things.She is Book Review co-editor
of Pedagogies, and international journal, and founder of enl*ght, a NIE-based
student-run publication for Literature teachers.
Mr Joshua Ip
Joshua Ip is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of two volumes of
poetry from Math Paper Press: ‘making love with scrabble tiles’ (2013),
and ‘sonnets from the singlish’ (2012). He won the Golden Point Award for
Prose in 2013, and was runner-up for Poetry in 2011. He has co-edited two
poetry anthologies: ‘A Luxury We Cannot Afford’ (2014) and ‘SingPoWriMo
2014: The Anthology’ (2014). He is working on his first graphic novel, ‘Ten
Stories Below’ (2015). He organized the inaugural Singapore Poetry Writing
Month in 2014, and the first Singapore Manuscript Bootcamp in 2015. You can
find more at www.joshuaip.com.
Mr Marc Nair
Marc Nair is a poet and photographer. He has published four books of poetry
and has represented Singapore in poetry slam competitions. He has performed
solo and as part of a group at various festivals around the world. He has been
the artistic director of Lit Up, an indie multidisciplinary festival, from 2011.
With his band Neon and Wonder, he sets his poems to music and writes
original songs. They have released two albums, Chai: Travel Poems and Animal
City Songs.
Dr Dennis Yeo
Dennis Yeo has taught at primary, secondary, junior college and tertiary
levels. His positions include Subject Head (Literature), Head of Department
(Pastoral Care & Career Guidance) and Vice-Principal of Pioneer Junior
College. He is currently with the English Language and Literature Academic
Group at the National Institute of Education. His research interests include
Gothic film, popular culture and literature pedagogy. He is the author of
Telltale 11 Stories: A Study Companion and the editor of Ku*lit: Asian
Literature for the Language Classroom. He received the NIE Excellence in
Teaching Award in 2013.
Mr Theophilus Kwek
Born in Singapore, Theophilus Kwek has published two volumes of
poetry, They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue(2011) and Circle
Line (2013), which was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in
2014. He won the Jane Martin Prize in 2015, the Martin Starkie Prize in
2014, and was also Highly Commended in 2014's PBS National Student
Poetry Competition in the UK. His poetry has previously appeared
in Cake, Spork Press, Cadaverine, and both the Asiatic and Mascara
Literary Reviews. He reads History and Politics at Merton College,
Oxford, and is President of the Oxford University Poetry Society.
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Ms Ann Ang
Ann Ang’s poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in publications
and journals such as Eclectica Magazine, theQLRS, Kartika Review, The
Common, Balik Kampung 2 and Softblow. Her first collection of short
stories, titled Bang My Car, was launched at the Singapore Writers
Festival in 2012. “Scared for What”, from the same collection, was
included in The Epigram Collection of Best New Singaporean Short
Stories.
Ms Jean Tay
Jean Tay is an award-winning Singaporean playwright, whose plays have been
performed in Singapore, US, UK, and Italy. She has been nominated three
times for Best Original Script for the Life! Theatre Awards, and won for
“Everything But the Brain” in 2006.
"Everything but the Brain” is currently being used as an 'O' and 'N' Level
literature text for secondary schools.
Ms Verena Tay
As a writer and editor, Verena Tay has published a short story
collection, Spectre: Stories from Dark to Light (2012), and three play
collections, and edited seven fiction anthologies, including the popular Balik
Kampung series published by Math Paper Press. A seasoned storyteller and
theatre practitioner, Verena has brought traditional and her own stories
vocally and physically alive in her unique fashion, delighting audiences in
Singapore, Scandinavia, Australia, the US and Malaysia. An Honorary Fellow at
the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (Aug–Nov 2007), she
holds three Masters degrees in English Literature, Voice Studies and Creative
Writing.
Mr Ken Mizusawa
Ken Mizusawa is a Japanese citizen by birth, a New Zealand playwright by
nature and a Singapore civil servant by way of the teaching profession. He is a
Teaching Fellow at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) where he teaches in the English Language and
Literature Academic Group. Previously, he was the Subject Head of English at
Dunman High School, where he was responsible for the design and
implementation of the school-based, interdisciplinary Language Arts
curriculum. A writer client of Playmarket, New Zealand,his plays have been
staged in both Singapore and New Zealand. His collection of six plays written
primarily for young audiences, The Boy Who Caused 9/11 and Other Plays, was
published in late 2013 by Red Wheelbarrow Books.
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Dr Angelia Poon
Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of Literature at the English
Language and Literature Academic Group of the National
Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. Her
research interests include postcolonial theory and
contemporary literature with a focus on issues pertaining to
globalization, transnational narratives, and gender, class, and
racial subjectivities. She has written articles on contemporary
writers like Kiren Desai, Andrea Levy, and Monica Ali as well as
on Singapore writers and literature education. She is one of the
editors of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of
Literature in English (NUS Press, 2009). Her book, Enacting
Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics
of Performance (Ashgate) was published in 2008 and her coedited book, Sexuality and Contemporary Literature (Cambria
Press) was published in 2012.
Ms Faith Ng
Faith Ng is a playwright and an Associate Artist with Checkpoint
Theatre. Her plays include ‘Normal’ (2015), ‘For Better or For
Worse’ (2013) and ‘wo(men)’ (2010). The last two have been
nominated for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre
Awards. She holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in Creative
Writing (Scriptwriting) from the University of East Anglia, under
the National Arts Council Postgraduate Scholarship. She also
teaches playwriting at the National University of Singapore and
was the writer-in-residence for the Singapore Creative Writing
Residency 2014.
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Appendix C: NIE Map of Venues
TR508
TR507
TR505
TR506
LT 12
Seminar
Room
TR702
TR703
TR704
TR705
TR706
LT 1
TR504
TR501
TR701
TR503
(Registration
area)
TR707
TR709
TR711
TR713
TR708
TR710
TR712
TR714
TR715
TR717
LT 2
Block 5
TR716
TR718
Block 7
Block 1
Canteen &
Holding area
Block 2
LT 7
LT 8
Block 3